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A Riveting Time in Napa

I was just in Napa for the weekend, taking some dear friends who were visiting with me in San Francisco to see the beautiful wine valley. While we enjoyed going to a few of the wineries, what was surprising was how we really enjoyed the special exhibit at the Napa Valley Museum . The exhibit is ‘The Life and times of Rosie the Riveter’, which just opened this weekend.

The main feature was a documentary, a movie screening of ‘The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter’. My visiting friends are old enough to remember the story of her creation by our government to promote strong women to enter the workforce and stay feminine at the same time. The documentary really brought back many memories for my visiting friends. Rosie the Riveter was a cultural icon of the US. She represented the American women who worked in the war factories during World War II, where the women took over jobs that were held by men who had to serve in the war, or they created new jobs that were needed in order to keep up supplies for the military.

After the viewing, there was a discussion panel consisting of women veterans who live in the next town over, Yountville, at the Veterans Home. The discussion was fantastic! It was wonderful to hear their personal stories during that period of US history. One of my friends also got to share her story of that time, which gave me a deeper understanding of what most US citizen had to sacrifice for the war efforts. She told us about entering the workforce, in that time period, was one the greatest opportunities for women’s rights and how after the war, she was one of the few who kept her job and became a part of the crusade to improve conditions for workers like herself.

The evenings event latest longer than expected, it was too late to drive back to San Francisco for the night, so we drove around Napa to find a nice place to stay , but that didn’t stop the lively conversations as we settled in for the night. We all had something to say about all of what the United States has gone through in our lifetime and what the country is still going through, and we all wondered and hoped that the efforts all our veterans have made will be worth their sacrifice.

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